Twitter CEO Elon Musk Announces Temporary Limits

Twitter CEO Elon Musk announced that the popular social media platform has applied temporary limits on the number of tweets users can read in a single day in response to “extreme levels” of data scraping and system manipulation.

Verified accounts are temporarily limited to reading 6,000 posts a day, Musk said, adding that the unverified accounts and new unverified accounts are limited to reading 600 posts a day and 300 posts per day respectively.

Twitter Requires Account to View Tweets

That comes after Twitter announced that it will require users to have an account on the social media platform to view tweets, a move that Musk on Friday called a “temporary emergency measure.”

Musk had said that hundreds of organizations or more were scraping Twitter data “extremely aggressively,” impacting user experience.

Musk Expresses Displeasure with AI Firms

Musk had earlier expressed displeasure with artificial intelligence firms like OpenAI, the owner of ChatGPT, for using Twitter’s data to train their large language models.

The social media platform had previously taken a number of steps to win back advertisers who had left Twitter under Musk’s ownership and to boost subscription revenue by making verification check marks a part of the Twitter Blue program.